Civilization costs money to run. You take away taxes, you either give up that civilization, or your elected officials have to find another source of money.
Like asset forfeiture. Like red light cameras. Like policing the poor for profit.
The only way to stop a bully is to punch him in the nose, he respects nothing else...
Cool. So when are you going to punch Uncle Sam, and his puppet government in SK, intheface? Watching you American Exceptionalists go on about "the bad guys" is like watching Zombie Ted Bundy lecture Chris Brown for his bad attitude towards women.
The U.S. and S. Korea are not "antagonizing" the Norks.
Foal Eagle makes a bad liar out of that western exceptionalism. One of the largest annual military exercises in the world, practiced annually since '97, to wage a "defensive" war against North Korea. Which, I'm sure, is how western exceptionalists would view it if Russia and China practiced a "defensive" war off the coast of California, involving hundreds of ships, planes, and hundreds of thousands of troops.
And you wonder why NK started nuclear detonation tests ten years later.
But with Apple, the only way to distribute your app to users is via their App Store, where you have to pay the Apple tax (be it 30% or 15%). In any other industry, this would be an illegal market restriction.
Your car, game console, and DVD player find your Hatorade amusing, and would like to subscribe to your walled-gardens-are-only-a-problem-when-it's-Apple newsletter.
And since the internet and phones and motorized printing presses didn't exist in 1791, the government can obviously ban any speech the desire via those mediums. See where that logic gets you?
Yes, that was the obvious logical fallacy of the above AC. The fallacy I was obviously pointing out with the comparison.
One purpose of the Second Amendment was to allow the people to defend themselves from the government.
That's the slogan. Problems include reality, and that one "purpose" of the Constittuion was to make it harder for citizens to forcibly resist the government after Shay's Rebellion.
In the 1790's, the government and ordinary citizens had pretty much equal access to arms. To protect all the rights the Second Amendment was meant to protect, the people's right to keep and bear arms that are equivalent to those possessed by the government must not be infringed.
Ask Shay and the farmers in the Whiskey Rebellion how that worked out for them. Or the Confederates, who actually had an army and the best generals. Gun cultists overthrowing a fascist government is about as likely as Santa coming to deliver you that Lego set you wanted as a kid - and that's going back to the 19th Century when citizens might have arms as good as the Army.
Today, when the NSA spies on your every phone call, the Army can meet your Bushmaster with an Abrams tank, and DHS can take out the Bundy compound with a drone, it's more delusional than a coked up, flat earthed antivaxxer.
It means "in good working order": specifically, in this case, armed, ready, and able to use their weapons well through long practice.
In the same way that "arms" means "primitive medieval gunpowder weapons". Gun cultists, always trying to have it both ways. Modern definition, when it suits you, 18th century definition that you pulled out of your ass, when it suits you.
And on the highway nearest to your house, no doubt there has been a fatal accident sometime in its history. Therefore, the residents were "justified" in posting their own speed limits of 15 mph. Or, maybe you're just full of crap?
What happens if someone spends their money poorly, such as blowing it on drugs or gambling, and then they have nothing left at the end of the month to eat or pay their rent. As a society what do we do then?
What happens if the banks blow up the economy again with an unsustainable debt bubble? As a society should we continue to allow banks to exist? Are car companies a bad idea, because GM ignitions and Volkswagon emissions cheating? Same logic.
One minute you blame government, the next you say we should listen to "public health officials." I think you contradict yourself.
Only if he's a Libertarian with double standards. All government is bad, because Chernobyl, in the same way that all businesses are bad, because Enron. One makes as much sense as the other.
It's not like there was a mass social movement demanding that cows be inundated with antibiotics because they're knee-deep in their own shit on a factory farm. Like climate change, asbestos or the tobacco industry, this is about profit for a handful of people.
Apple's got a long history of buying legitimate patents and products fair and square.
FTFY
and using them to portray themselves as innovators
Another Hateboi that needs to consult the dictionary on innovation and invention. They are different terms with different meanings - Apple didn't invent power cords that attach magnetically, but being the first company to put them on laptops was innovative.
I've never heard the middle-age parents who shop at Whole Foods described as "Wingers" before. Sort of an odd label.
No. It's not.
1) Either they're elitists, and thus right-wingers 2) Or they're Love Me I'm A Liberal members of the bourgeois - another variant right-wingers, like evangelicals or free-market jihadists.
Just because they squabble doesn't meant they aren't right-wingers - no different than those who follow Falwell squabble with those that follow Milton.
If you approve of this sort of thing today you probably would have been among those who approved of forced sterilizations in the past.
Sounds like yet another false equivalency. How does a forced sterilization threaten the health of every individual you come in contact with, like an anti-vaxxer who walks around as a carrier for diseases that would otherwise be extinct? Either explain why that would be the case, or explain why you're not just another dumbass peddling another false equivalency.
1) They aren't 2) Lots of right wingers post on Slashdot. Randian nutjobs, too. 3) This means engaging in conversation with right wingers and Randians. 4) Just pointing out the obvious for those who suffer from willful blindness
it becomes likely that you are the winger
Or you're just another moron who needs to pull his head out of his ass.
Care to elaborate this with numbers, so we can calculate the risks?
You mean remedial details on the subject? Some people can't get vaccines because of allergies, or because of age. Herd Immunity, I suggest consulting Google.
On average vegans lives much shorter lives than non-vegans
Lies, damn lies, statistics and tautologies.
Because being vegan doesn't threaten your life, much less the lives of everyone around you?
Yes it does.
How. The. Hell. Does being a vegan endanger everyone else around you? It doesn't, obviously. So even if being a vegan shortened your lifespan to 40 years, it's not a remotely relevant comparison to being a Typhoid Mary for diseases that would be extinct, save for anti-vaxxers.
You immediately assume that they're stupid or mentally ill. Good ad hominem.
Good tone trolling. The problem is, taking an insanely idiotic position makes you an idiot - doesn't matter smart or well read you are otherwise. Ben Carson is a brilliant brain surgeon, but his being as dumb as a sack of hammers on anything else - means he's dumb as a sack of hammers.
Your attitude is what drives people further that direction.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. Literally in the case of anti-vaxxers. It's not his attitude, it's their stupidity.
After all, pharma companies are about making money.
The problem with that canard is that doctors and Pharma make more money from treating serious illnesses than preventing them. If there was a money conspiracy, Pharma and the AMA would be against vaccinations, not for them.
If you immediately dismiss people as stupid because they're pro-vac, anti-vac, believe in climate change, climate change deniers, 9/11 truthers, social justice warriors, civil rights promoters, patriotic, anarchists, fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist atheists
Facts matter. And the fact is, anti-vaxxers are just as stupid as Christian Scientists who let kids die because they take serious but treatable illnesses and decide that prayer is the answer.
and if the mob happens to feel that sterilization is essential to a healthy population if your child does not have genetic markers for high intelligence... fuck parental rights! You are potentially dumbing down our whole civilization by refusing compassionate sterilization for your children!
That's nice. Have any analogies that are remotely relevant, as opposed to the first false equivalency you could think of?
So does that mean I get a school voucher to use that money to send my kids to private school?
Nope.
Or do I just get a refund on my taxes for that?
Nope.
Do you really want to give up universal education?
Ask the anti-vaxxers who'd give it up.
And what about when the kids grow up? Are they not allowed to have a job? Start a business?
After they get vaccinated, or self-quarantine on Dumfuck Island.
Are you aware that you are, right now, in public with people who aren't vaccinated?
Are you aware there are people who can't get vaccines because of legit reasons, as opposed to being dumbfucks, and thus rely on the rest of us not being dumfucks and getting your damned shots?
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Civilization costs money to run. You take away taxes, you either give up that civilization, or your elected officials have to find another source of money.
Like asset forfeiture.
Like red light cameras.
Like policing the poor for profit.
Cool. So when are you going to punch Uncle Sam, and his puppet government in SK, in the face? Watching you American Exceptionalists go on about "the bad guys" is like watching Zombie Ted Bundy lecture Chris Brown for his bad attitude towards women.
Foal Eagle makes a bad liar out of that western exceptionalism. One of the largest annual military exercises in the world, practiced annually since '97, to wage a "defensive" war against North Korea. Which, I'm sure, is how western exceptionalists would view it if Russia and China practiced a "defensive" war off the coast of California, involving hundreds of ships, planes, and hundreds of thousands of troops.
And you wonder why NK started nuclear detonation tests ten years later.
Your car, game console, and DVD player find your Hatorade amusing, and would like to subscribe to your walled-gardens-are-only-a-problem-when-it's-Apple newsletter.
Yes, that was the obvious logical fallacy of the above AC. The fallacy I was obviously pointing out with the comparison.
That's the slogan. Problems include reality, and that one "purpose" of the Constittuion was to make it harder for citizens to forcibly resist the government after Shay's Rebellion.
Ask Shay and the farmers in the Whiskey Rebellion how that worked out for them. Or the Confederates, who actually had an army and the best generals. Gun cultists overthrowing a fascist government is about as likely as Santa coming to deliver you that Lego set you wanted as a kid - and that's going back to the 19th Century when citizens might have arms as good as the Army.
Today, when the NSA spies on your every phone call, the Army can meet your Bushmaster with an Abrams tank, and DHS can take out the Bundy compound with a drone, it's more delusional than a coked up, flat earthed antivaxxer.
In the same way that "arms" means "primitive medieval gunpowder weapons". Gun cultists, always trying to have it both ways. Modern definition, when it suits you, 18th century definition that you pulled out of your ass, when it suits you.
And on the highway nearest to your house, no doubt there has been a fatal accident sometime in its history. Therefore, the residents were "justified" in posting their own speed limits of 15 mph. Or, maybe you're just full of crap?
What happens if the banks blow up the economy again with an unsustainable debt bubble? As a society should we continue to allow banks to exist? Are car companies a bad idea, because GM ignitions and Volkswagon emissions cheating? Same logic.
Only if he's a Libertarian with double standards. All government is bad, because Chernobyl, in the same way that all businesses are bad, because Enron. One makes as much sense as the other.
It's not like there was a mass social movement demanding that cows be inundated with antibiotics because they're knee-deep in their own shit on a factory farm. Like climate change, asbestos or the tobacco industry, this is about profit for a handful of people.
Because having an abortion is on the same level as buying ethernet cables or looking up used car ratings? Methinks not.
FTFY
Another Hateboi that needs to consult the dictionary on innovation and invention. They are different terms with different meanings - Apple didn't invent power cords that attach magnetically, but being the first company to put them on laptops was innovative.
No. It's not.
1) Either they're elitists, and thus right-wingers
2) Or they're Love Me I'm A Liberal members of the bourgeois - another variant right-wingers, like evangelicals or free-market jihadists.
Just because they squabble doesn't meant they aren't right-wingers - no different than those who follow Falwell squabble with those that follow Milton.
Sounds like yet another false equivalency. How does a forced sterilization threaten the health of every individual you come in contact with, like an anti-vaxxer who walks around as a carrier for diseases that would otherwise be extinct? Either explain why that would be the case, or explain why you're not just another dumbass peddling another false equivalency.
1) They aren't
2) Lots of right wingers post on Slashdot. Randian nutjobs, too.
3) This means engaging in conversation with right wingers and Randians.
4) Just pointing out the obvious for those who suffer from willful blindness
Or you're just another moron who needs to pull his head out of his ass.
You mean remedial details on the subject? Some people can't get vaccines because of allergies, or because of age. Herd Immunity, I suggest consulting Google.
Lies, damn lies, statistics and tautologies.
How. The. Hell. Does being a vegan endanger everyone else around you? It doesn't, obviously. So even if being a vegan shortened your lifespan to 40 years, it's not a remotely relevant comparison to being a Typhoid Mary for diseases that would be extinct, save for anti-vaxxers.
There's far too much profit in poverty for that to happen.
Or point out that's a complete non-sequitur outside of copyright.
Good tone trolling. The problem is, taking an insanely idiotic position makes you an idiot - doesn't matter smart or well read you are otherwise. Ben Carson is a brilliant brain surgeon, but his being as dumb as a sack of hammers on anything else - means he's dumb as a sack of hammers.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. Literally in the case of anti-vaxxers. It's not his attitude, it's their stupidity.
The problem with that canard is that doctors and Pharma make more money from treating serious illnesses than preventing them. If there was a money conspiracy, Pharma and the AMA would be against vaccinations, not for them.
Facts matter. And the fact is, anti-vaxxers are just as stupid as Christian Scientists who let kids die because they take serious but treatable illnesses and decide that prayer is the answer.
The existence of anti-vaxxers is dispositive of your theory.
Non sequitur.
Do tell how you inform on the subject of vaccinations while leaving the science out of it.
Like forcing them to learn something before letting them acting out of ignorance?
That's nice. Have any analogies that are remotely relevant, as opposed to the first false equivalency you could think of?
Better than winger fucknuttery.
What's your stance on red herrings and non sequiturs?
Because being vegan doesn't threaten your life, much less the lives of everyone around you?
Nope.
Nope.
Ask the anti-vaxxers who'd give it up.
After they get vaccinated, or self-quarantine on Dumfuck Island.
Are you aware there are people who can't get vaccines because of legit reasons, as opposed to being dumbfucks, and thus rely on the rest of us not being dumfucks and getting your damned shots?